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The Montreal-based rail company says Edmond Harris will succeed Rob Reilly effective immediately. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press Canadian National Railway Co. CNR-T says Edmond Harris will be its new executive vice-president and chief operating officer. The Montreal-based rail company says Harris will succeed Rob Reilly effective immediately. CN president and CEO Tracy Robinson said in a statement that Harris will provide leadership and experience as CN moves into the next phase of its operating plan, and help provide mentorship for the next generation of leaders. The company says Harris has worked in the industry for 40 years, holding leadership positions at CN as well as at Canadian Pacific Railway, CSX and Illinois Central. CN says Reilly joined CN in 2019 and led the company through the pandemic and supply chain challenges. The company did not provide any details around the reason for Reilly’s departure. https://www.tausiinsider.com/cn-names-new-executive-vice-president-a...

Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst, the co-founders of Cohere AI company, have hired YouTube CFO Martin Kon as their president and COO. Fred Lum/the Globe and Mail Toronto artificial-intelligence startup Cohere Inc. has hired YouTube chief financial officer Martin Kon to become its president and chief operating officer as the company tries to bring its high-profile language-processing tools to market. Cohere specializes in large language models – AI that’s trained to digest text from across the internet to understand how to process and spurt out responses to prompts with increasing sophistication. The language-processing field has gained increasing attention in recent weeks as well-known competitor OpenAI made its ChatGPT tool available to the public – leading people worldwide to give the tools endless combinations of commands and gawk at the humanlike, frequently accurate writing that it puts out. At just three years old, Cohere has become a centrepiece of Toronto’s renowned AI...

Reed Hastings, Co-CEO, Netflix speaks at the 2021 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Caif. on Oct. 18, 2021. DAVID SWANSON/Reuters Netflix Inc. co-founder Reed Hastings announced on Thursday he will step down as chief executive, handing the reins of the streaming service to his long-time partner and co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, and the company’s chief operating officer, Greg Peters. Shares of the company, which had fallen nearly 38 per cent in the past year, rose 7.9 per cent to US$340.66 in after-hours trading. Mr. Sarandos and Mr. Peters will share the title of chief executives, with Mr. Hastings serving as executive chairman. The change is effective immediately, representing the culmination of a decade of succession planning by the board. Both Mr. Peters and Mr. Sarandos were promoted in July, 2020, amid a challenging time for the company. “It was a baptism by fire, given Covid and recent challenges within our business,” Mr. Hastings wrote in a blog post announcing his ...

Eileen Dooley is a talent and leadership development specialist and a leadership coach based in Calgary Early in my career I worked at a national office, which also had employees in four regions, each representing an area of the country: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada. To say that nobody understood each other would be an understatement. Conversations with the group, especially on national projects and activities went something like this: National office: Here is what we need the regions to roll out … Them (in no particular order): 1. You don’t understand us. 2. We are big and have lots of resources so we will do what we want. 3. No. This is not going to work here (angry tone). 4. We have so few resources, so we will take whatever you give us. It was predictable, and not all that progressive. More time was spent listening to criticism of content and process, as well as defending decisions, than being productive and co-operative. The national office wanted things to look ...